Adolescentes evangélicos e o ciberespaço

Abstract

This research was carried out with the support of the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Level Personnel (CAPES) and its main objective is to analyze who are and how Brazilian evangelical adolescents of the 21st century are, according to the different types of denominations evangelicals found in the country and, above all, seeks to verify the relationship of these adolescents with cyberspace. The work is divided into three chapters. The first chapter presented an analysis of the historical construction of the adolescent being in the Brazilian scenario, in a postmodern perspective and, in addition, the relationship of Brazilian evangelical adolescents with cyberspace was analyzed and a brief discussion was presented on the concept of cyberteology . In the second chapter the methodological course of the research was approached, which consisted in a qualitative investigation, with emphasis in the Cultural Studies. The ethnographic methodology was applied, which emphasizes the experiential element of the experience and, as a research method, the participant observation and a questionnaire with 40 questions were used for a total of 200 adolescents, distributed in four groups of fifty participants to each segment of Brazilian Protestantism: historical, classical, Neo-Pentecostal and post-Pentecostal Protestants. Finally, from the theoretical contribution and the field research, the final considerations of this study were realized, and it was verified, especially, that: in the post-modernity there are varied ways of adolescer; that Brazilian evangelical adolescents in the 21st century develop their spirituality in a more unpretentious way when compared to the adolescents of the past generations; there is commitment, but it happens at a rate that adults interpret as lack of commitment; Social Networks achieve the connectivity that the official sites of the denominations do not reach; the adolescents are not responsible for the changes that come with postmodernity, they are vectors, drivers, bearers of postmodernity.